Every physicist knows that things connect with each other. To isolate things is not the way the universe works – winning best actor is arbitrary.
ALAN ARKINHollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.
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I’m an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I’m just taking the best stuff that I can find that’s sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is.
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Confronting some stern and faceless judge who would condemn me to a pit of hell if I didn’t achieve the “zone,” if even for a moment. Not a particularly happy place to work from.
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Most of the time, I’ve been really fortunate to work with people who are really fun to work with.
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I don’t love the business. I never wanted to be a part of it. I don’t think any actor does.
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I don’t believe there’s anything in life you can’t go back and fix.
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You never know what class you belong to unless you’re one of the two or three people that have been in the same echelon for a long, long time.
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You know what Andy Warhol’s sole contribution to this country has been? He made Campbell’s Soup a household word.
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I see how the industry and the studios feel it’s important, but I don’t really have a feeling for being in competition.
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” Education does not mean jamming information into somebody’s head. Rather, it’s that ancient idea that all knowledge is within us; to teach is to help somebody pull it out of themselves.
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For many years my acting came from a place of surmounting some enormous obstacle.
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Is it possible to have an endless series of successes without falling on our faces?
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I read somewhere that some people believe that the entire universe is a matrix of living thought. And I said, “Man, if that’s not a definition of God, I don’t know what is.
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What I’ve learned about teaching is to refer back to the root of that word, which is educo, which means “to pull from.
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My favorite kind of film is serious comedy. Comedy with serious underpinning.
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I know that if I can’t move people, then I have no business being an actor.
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We might just as well let the rest of it go, join the party, and dance our hearts out.
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As hard as it is in your work, it’s harder in your life. But it can be done.
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All I can say is if the part doesn’t delight me in some way, or I can’t feel any compassion for it, I just can’t do it.
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I don’t think it does the audience any good to know what I do to prepare.
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You can be connected with community theater or make your own little movies. But, if you want to be a movie star, you’ve got a tough road ahead of you.
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I gotta keep busy. I’m not happy unless I’m working on two, three things.
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It’s murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point.
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And then that’s what you have to be. But what I’m looking for is the opportunity to explore what I can do, probing the limits, learning.
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A product is most easily sold when it has an identity. So they wrap you all up and put a label on you.
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I had a bunch of lean years where I had to do things, a lot of which I wasn’t wildly enthusiastic about.
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I suppose it is, but I think it would entail doing the same things over and over again without taking chances, without taking risks or exploring our limits, without finding out what we can and can’t do.
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